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Definition of Criminal negligence
1. Noun. (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences).
Generic synonyms: Carelessness, Neglect, Negligence, Nonperformance
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Definition of Criminal negligence
1. Noun. (legal) Failure to use reasonable care, and thus put someone at risk of injury or death. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminal Negligence
Literary usage of Criminal negligence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Criminal Law as Now Administered in the United States by Emlin McClain (1897)
"criminal negligence. § 129. As supplying intent.— The general rule requiring \
criminal intent to render an act punishable does not prevent \ criminal ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Lake v. Parish of Caddo, 37 La. 788, 791. criminal negligence. "criminal negligence,"
as the term is used in the statute requiring as a defense ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"... when assigned, must be brought in the name of the assignee.8 The cutting must
have been done wilfully or with criminal negligence.3 c. DECLARATION. ..."
4. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"... an act not malum in se, or infamous, without requiring the act to be knowingly
done, a criminal intent need not be proved.9 § 102. criminal negligence. ..."